Social Justice: Left Calls for Wage Equity Ratio for Funded Corporations

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A boss should earn a maximum of twenty times his workers. Such a coupling of wages demands the left for companies that receive public money.

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The left wants to narrow the gap between top salaries of top managers and employees at the lower end of the pay scale with a “wage equity ratio.” Companies that receive government subsidies or in which the state holds shares, such as Volkswagen, should have to pay their lowest-paid employees at least one twentieth of the salary of the CEO, writes vice party leader Maximilian Schirmer in a paper on which the “Handelsblatt” (Tuesday edition) repor…